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A virus is a very small thing that can make people sick by getting into a living cell to copy itself. A computer virus is software that attacks your computer.

virus

(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance a harmful or corrupting agency bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone

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Because of that virus, many elephants lost their lives.
We now have misinformation and fear and panic, which is as contagious or more contagious than the virus.
Scientists are fighting to stem the spread of the AIDS virus.
That looks like the work of a virus.
Drastic measures must be taken to prevent the further spread of the virus.
A flu shot contains antibodies that fight the H1N1 virus.
The virus is starting to mutate.
I heard that there was a strange virus in circulation.
A virus infected Tom's computer.
Could it be a virus?
Aren't you afraid of getting infected by the virus?
Aren't you afraid of catching a virus?
The virus cut down many elephants in Africa.
The virus makes him very feverish.
I can't open this message. A virus, maybe?
My pen-drive has a virus.
My anti-virus let a virus through.
In my next life I want to be born as a deadly virus.

Movie subtitles

The first cases appeared in early summer. 2 00:00:55,740 -- 00:00:58,410 For months the virus tried to destroy the population.
The virus does not spread well.
The virus probably is in a vegetative stage.
I have the virus in my blood.
If our guy has the virus we're in big trouble.
This village had a virus shared by its people.
I'd make an educated guess that there's a filterable virus.
Unlike the Americans, our cousins in affluence, we have shown ourselves strong in the face of the virus of the state.
Oh, nothing much, virus.
Did they go to another planet, or were they wiped out by a virus?
Is it possible this germ, or virus, could be airborne?
You two stay on this virus theory until I decide it's exhausted.
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win, or even to survive.
Lincoln called in a Yankee named Grant who didn't care about organisation but wasn't afflicted with the virus.
Furthermore, I've found it's a synthetic virus created from scratch.
The Blessed who abducted Ivan headed in the direction of the Savior tank plant, which also happens to be a company capable of creating a man-made virus?
So is that why you're planning to unleash that virus?
The virus being carried by the micro-drones will be released on the humans below. It will proliferate even as it forces its host to evolve.
Once there, you could deflect all of the virus from Earth's orbit into the void of outer space.
You said the poison of the lycosa carnivora was valuable to doctors. Any scientist would say the virus was valuable to toxicologists.
Now what it is that Ordway could have had with him in the jungles of Central Africa immune to the virus of the lycosa carnivora that was both dog-like and faithful?
Then I will seek out organic life wherever it may exist down even to the littlest virus which in time might evolve mentality.
NEITHER EXPECTED NOR BARGAINED FOR. IN JUST A MOMENT, ONE OF THEM WILL SUCCUMB TO AN ILLNESS WORSE THAN ANY VIRUS CAN PRODUCE.
We don't know that this is a virus.
My virus. it's not from this earth.
Your virus is from planet Zebulon?
This is a fictional virus, Harry.
What I can't believe. is that I actually took you seriously this time. He claims that his virus came from this stupid book.
JOSH: Dear God, I know you're busy with everything from Afghanistan to the Zika virus, but if you have time. we could really use your help with our fast breaks.
This virus epidemic keeping you busy, Doctor?
The virus of capitalism is highly infectious.
Is it possible that this germ or virus could be air-born?
You two stay on this virus theory, until I decide it's exhausted.
That touch of virus on your tongue.
I thought freezing kills any virus.
You know what that virus would have done while you were in a state of de-animation?
All the rest of you would be one big, raging mass of virus.
Evidently, through some miscalculation, this virus annihilated the entire adult population in a very short period, leaving only the children.
If you can isolate that virus, you'll be able to develop a vaccine.
A virus fever, which used to be quite common to the human being.
Well, that depends on the strength of the virus infection.
It appears that this virus is more virulent than I suspected.

News and current affairs

Today, it is a potential avian virus similar to the one that killed 30 million people after 1914.
Viruses are parasites to cells, and each virus attacks a particular type of cell.
The virus is shaped so that it can drill into a particular feature of that cell and inject parts of itself inside, confusing the cell into making more viruses and destroying itself in the process.
But if large numbers of a host - say, birds - encounter a great number of people, eventually the virus will find a way to prosper in a new type of cell.
Laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV undermine public health because they deter people who are HIV-positive and those at risk of acquiring the virus from seeking testing, counseling, and treatment.
As the Stuxnet virus that infected Iran's nuclear program showed, software attacks can have very real physical effects.
When the Global Fund was created a decade ago, HIV incidence was rising around the world, and the drugs used to treat the virus were still prohibitively expensive.
In recent discussions about how to combat the virus, the methodical rigor of science and medicine has given way to hyperbolic politics and public hysteria.
Nonetheless, when the Ebola virus entered Liberia from neighboring Guinea earlier this year, the country's health-care infrastructure was quickly overwhelmed.
More than 2,000 Liberians have died of the disease, and the virus remains rampant.
The second lesson that the Ebola epidemic holds concerns major gaps in our ability to develop new methods and technologies to fight the virus and other diseases like it.
The world has known about the deadly nature of the Ebola virus since 1976; but, because its victims were poor, pharmaceutical companies had no incentive to develop a vaccine.
It is also a crisis of emerging infectious diseases (EID's), such as HIV in humans, Ebola in humans and gorillas, West Nile virus and Avian Influenza in humans and birds, chytrid fungi in amphibians, and distemper in sea lions.
The pandemic has claimed 19 million lives, and created 13 million orphans. 34 million more people live with the HIV virus that causes AIDS; virtually all are marked for early death.
On an equally important front, the US is working with the United Nations to galvanize a global response to the danger posed by the Ebola virus.
In some jurisdictions, prosecutors can bring charges against pregnant women who are HIV-positive for potentially exposing the virus to their unborn children.
Pregnant HIV-infected IDUs transmit the virus to their babies, and sometimes - shockingly often in Russia - abandon their newborns, relinquishing them to the state.
A rapid and determined response could have done much to contain the virus.
The story of interferon, given for one year to patients with hepatitis C virus, is particularly striking.
The shortage of health workers, facilities, and supplies prevented many people from receiving treatment, allowing the virus to spread further.

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